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Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem



Peter Thomassen wrote:
Hi!

The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc,
whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-)

Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be
some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't know if one
exists).

Peter


AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc.

So in answer to your question, this will happen on all SATA drives.

HTH

Wackojacko



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